FIVB Beach Volleyball World Rankings

The FIVB Beach Volleyball World Rankings is a ranking system for men's and women's national teams in beach volleyball. The teams of the member nations of the FIVB, beach volleyball and volleyball's world governing body, are ranked based on their competition results with the most successful teams being ranked highest.

The ranking is based on the 8 best results over the last 365 days. They are updated every Monday after an FIVB recognized event.

The rankings are used in international competitions to define the seeded teams and arrange them in pools. Specific procedures for seeding and pooling are established by the FIVB in each competition's formula.

Rankings[]

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Men[] Top 20 Rankings as of May 7, 2018.[1] Rank Pair Points 1 Phil Dalhausser & Nick Lucena 5,220 2 Bartosz Łosiak & Piotr Kantor 5,080 3 Alexander Brouwer & Robert Meeuwsen 4,480 4 Viacheslav Krasilnikov & Nikita Liamin 4,380 5 Paolo Nicolai & Daniele Lupo 4,360 6 Evandro Oliveira & André Stein 4,300 7 Jānis Šmēdiņš & Aleksandrs Samoilovs 4,120 8 Alison Cerutti & Bruno Oscar Schmidt 4,100 9 Pablo Herrera & Adrián Gavira 3,880 10 Clemens Doppler & Alexander Horst 3,796 11 Mārtiņš Pļaviņš & 3,450 12 Michał Bryl & Grzegorz Fijałek 3,240 13 Sam Schachter & 3,120 14 Álvaro Morais Filho & 3,060 14 Anders Mol & Christian Sørum 3,060 16 & 3,000 17 Jake Gibb & Taylor Crabb 2,970 18 Juan Virgen & Lombardo Ontiveros 2,920 19 Pedro Solberg Salgado & 2,860 20 & 2,680

Women[] Top 20 Rankings as of May 7, 2018.[2] Rank Pair Points 1 Melissa Humana-Paredes & Sarah Pavan 6,080 2 Julia Sude & Chantal Laboureur 4,480 3 Bárbara Seixas & Fernanda Alves 4,400 4 Larissa França & Talita Antunes 4,360 5 Barbora Hermannová & Markéta Sluková 4,220 6 Ágatha Bednarczuk & Eduarda Lisboa 4,160 7 Maria Antonelli & Carolina Solberg Salgado 3,880 8 Kristýna Kolocová & Michala Kvapilová 3,560 8 Brooke Sweat & Summer Ross 3,560 10 Nina Betschart & Tanja Hüberli 3,420 11 Joana Heidrich & Anouk Vergé-Dépré 3,380 12 Mariafe Artacho del Solar & Taliqua Clancy 3,216 13 Heather Bansley & Brandie Wilkerson 3,160 14 & 3,040 15 Kelly Claes & Sara Hughes 2,920 16 Karla Borger & Margareta Kozuch 2,700 17 & 2,680 18 Laura Ludwig & Kira Walkenhorst 2,524 19 & 2,360 20 Svetlana Kholomina & 2,220

See also[]

• Beach volleyball at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Qualification for the rankings going into the 2008 Summer Olympics

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